Str8 Talk: Public Speaking, Google Tips and Customer Service

In an effort to be helpful and perhaps foster further discussion, I thought I would launch a weekly blog post that would share some articles on a host of topics I found interesting throughout the week. Typically this will be between three and five things I came across that could make for some good weekend reading. Hope you find this approach useful. Here we go for the week of April 6, 2015:

Even though the original post is from November, it showed up in my twitter feed this week. Simon Sinek is the author of great books like Start With Why and Leaders Eat Last. He is also a very inspiring speaker. Here he offers his approach to delivering powerful presentations. My favorite tip is: Show up to give, not to take!

Google is the go to place for many of our answers and I’m sure that you were aware of many of these things that are possible. Among the things I found most interesting here have to do with Google Chromecast. Take a look at this post and let me know if you find something worth while!

Shep Hyken is a customer service expert and author of Amaze Every Customer Every Time. He shares some thoughts on empowering employees to make decisions that will benefit their customers in such a way that the only time the employee has to check with a manager would be to say no. Mr. Hyken also uses some examples from Randi Busse, author of Turning Rants into Raves. I’ve had the pleasure of presenting on panels with Randi and she has some great thoughts on how to take excellent care of your customers.

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Hope you’ll come back next week when I share more of what connected with me during the week!

Featured image of Simon Sinek from http://www.entrepreneur.com/ article.